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Grading Rap’s Recent Major Album Rollouts
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Image via Publicist Fivio Foreign, ‘B.I.B.L.E.’
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Image via Instagram Coi Leray, ‘Trendsetter’
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Image via Sterling Ruby Pusha-T, ‘It’s Almost Dry’
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Image via Freebandz/Epic Records Future, ‘I Never Liked You’
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Image via Publicist Jack Harlow, ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’
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Image via pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope Kendrick Lamar, ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’
Pusha T Declares ‘It’s Almost Dry’ The Best Rap Album Of 2022
We’re already halfway through 2022, and so far, this has been a pretty exciting year for rap music. Lists have already begun to come out of the best albums of the year so far, and there are two albums that people have universally considered for that top spot: Pusha-T’s It’s Almost Dry and Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
It’s no doubt that these were both fantastic projects in their rights. While Kendrick has stayed quiet since the release of his project, Pusha-T has been on tour, and during his stop in Los Angeles on Tuesday, he took the time to declare It’s Almost Dry “Rap Album of the Motherf*cking Year.”
Pusha T said he got RAP ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
@PUSHA_T
•: @shirju pic.twitter.com/Jf4nIoacca
— Power 106 (@Power106LA) June 1, 2022
However, this is not the first time King Push has referred to his recent effort. During his press run for the album, he would say that It’s Almost Dry would be rap album of the year. In an interview with Complex earlier this year with Pusha’s manager Steven Victor, Push referred to the album as the best rap album. He added that “ain’t nothing fucking with it” once all the production on the album was finished and said that he was “on some one thousand rap superhero sh*t.”
Following the release of his fourth solo album, Push said in an interview with GQ that he’s already working on his next album. He played a snippet of a finished song, adding that this is a new era for him, then likening himself to Biggie when he switched his flow and persona between 1994 and 1997.
“This is a new era for me, for sure,” Push said. “Don’t you hear the flows, you hear the tones, you hear the character? Listen, remember what Big sounded like in ’94?…Then he turned to the [smoother] Frank White persona by ’96. By ’97 it was full blown. And by the time the transformation is done [my craft] will be mastered and ready. You’ll have a niche product.”
Even though we still have six more months of the year, trying to top It’s Almost Dry will not be an easy feat.
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Pusha-T Declares ‘It’s Almost Dry’ Is the Best Rap Album of the Year
The Best Albums of 2022 (So Far)
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Image via Publicist Jack Harlow, ‘Come Home the Kids Miss You’
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Image via Defcee & Boathouse Defcee & Boathouse, ‘For All Debts Public and Private’
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Image via Publicist Leikeli47, ‘Shape Up’
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Image via Publicist Curren$y & The Alchemist, ‘Continuance’
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Image via Publicist Dreamville, ‘D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape’
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Image via Publicist YoungBoy Never Broke Again, ‘Colors’
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Image via Publicist Toro Y Moi, ‘MAHAL’
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Image via Publicist NIGO, ‘I Know NIGO!’
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Image via Publicist Babyface Ray, ‘Face’
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Image via Publicist Fly Anakin, ‘Frank’
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Image via Publicist Ella Mai, ‘Heart on My Sleeve’
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Image via Warner Records IDK, ‘Simple.’
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Image via DTLA Records WiFiGawd, ‘Chain of Command’
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Image via Atlantic Records Ravyn Lenae, ‘HYPNOS’
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Image via Publicist Lucky Daye, ‘Candydrip’
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Image via Publicist Black Star, ‘No Fear of Time’
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Image via Publicist Syd, ‘Broken Hearts Club’
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Image via AWAL/ Warner Records Omar Apollo, ‘Ivory’
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Image via Tidal Rex Orange County, ‘Who Cares’
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Image via Publicist Bad Bunny, ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
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Image via Publicist Latto, ‘777’
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Image via Tidal 42 Dugg & EST Gee, ‘Last Ones Left’
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Image via Freebandz/Epic Records Future, ‘I Never Liked You’
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Image via Tidal Buddy, ‘Superghetto’
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Image via Publicist Lil Durk, ‘7220’
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Image via Publicist Yeat, ‘2 Alivë’
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Image via Publicist Saba, ‘Few Good Things’
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Image via Columbia/Erskine Records Harry Styles, ‘Harry’s House’
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Image via Publicist FKA Twigs, ‘Caprisongs’
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Image via RRR Music Group YL & Zoomo, ‘In Memory Of’
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Image via Publicist EarthGang, ‘Ghetto Gods’
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Image via Publicist Mike Dimes, ‘In Dimes We Trust’
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Image via Publicist $NOT, ‘Ethereal’
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Image via Hvmor Records Redveil, ‘Learn 2 Swim’
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Image via GDF Records/The Freeminded Records/EMPIRE Jay Worthy & Larry June, ‘2 P’z in a Pod’
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Image via Publicist Benny the Butcher, ‘Tana Talk 4’
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Image via Publicist Action Bronson, ‘Cocodrillo Turbo’
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Image via Publicist Koffee, ‘Gifted’
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Image via T.C.F Music Group Che Noir, ‘Food For Thought’
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Image via Tidal Blxst, ‘Before You Go’
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Image via Backwoodz Studioz billy woods, ‘Aethiopes’
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Image via Publicist Conway the Machine, ‘God Don’t Make Mistakes’
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Image via Publicist Denzel Curry, ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’
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Image via Publicist Rosalía, ‘Motomami’
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Image via Tidal Earl Sweatshirt, ‘Sick!’
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Image via Instagram Gunna, ‘DS4EVER’
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Image via The Weeknd XO, Inc./Republic Records The Weeknd, ‘Dawn FM’
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Image via Blacksmith Recordings/Motown Records Vince Staples, ‘Ramona Park Broke My Heart’
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Image via Sterling Ruby Pusha-T, ‘It’s Almost Dry’
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Image via pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope Kendrick Lamar, ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’
Drake Seemingly Responds To Pusha T’s Claim That He Was Banned From Canada
It’s pretty clear at this point that Drake and Pusha T have no interest in settling their longtime. Tensions have been high between the rappers for years now, but the peak of their beef can back in 2018 when Pusha shared the news about Drake’s first child, Adonis, before Drake himself had a chance to announce it. The rappers have thrown subs at each other on various tracks, but in the latest development between the two, Pusha claimed that he’s been banned from Canada during a recent appearance on Drink Champs.
“I’m banned from Canada,” he said during the interview. “I can’t get back over there. I ain’t allowed to go back over there.” He added, “I went to my show [and] it was rowdy people at the show. I didn’t even get to the song. It got rowdy and I got on my way. It was cool.” The show Pusha is referring to is his 2018 Toronto concert that resulted in fans throwing drinks at him as he performed. However, Drake and his longtime OVO associate Chubbs seem to view things differently as an Instagram post from the latter reveals.
“We Don’t Ban N*ggaz We Welcome Them With Open Arms,” Chubbs captioned a picture of him and Drake walking with an entourage of other people. Unsurprisingly enough, Drake caught wind of the post and chimed in with his own message. “Come on over,” Drake wrote with a laughing emoji.
This comes after Drake seemingly threw some shots at Pusha T in his guest verse on Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs.” On it, he raps, “But I gotta get a n**** back for that, it’s non-negotiable / It’s not even debatable,” which appears to be in response to Pusha’s “The Story Of Adidon.” Drake throws more shots with lines like, “All I hear is plug talk comin’ from middleman / All I hear is tall tales comin’ from little men,” and, “Daytonas with the green faces,” on the track as well.
You can view Pusha T’s Drink Champs episode as well as Drake and Chubbs’ comments in the posts above.
Drake Reacts to Chubbs Saying ‘We Don’t Ban N****z We Welcome Them With Open Arms’
Pusha T Wants To Prove His Rap Immortality: ‘They Need To Understand That I Can Do This Forever’
This year has been a great one for Pusha-T. He kicked things with his impressive “Diet Coke” record which featured production from Kanye West and 88-Keys. He followed that up with “Neck & Wrist” alongside Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z. Both songs later appeared on his fourth studio album It’s Almost Dry which became Pusha’s first No. 1 album of his career and an early favorite for rap album of the year in 2022. The project was his first since 2018’s Daytona, but as Pusha tells it, it will be far from his last album. That’s because he seeks one major thing in his career going forward: rap immortality.
During a recent profile with NME, Pusha T shared his desire to prove that he is indeed an immortal rap figure. “A lot of our forefathers, the greats, they didn’t stand the test of time,” he said. “As great as they were, I don’t know how much they are [still] appreciated. [I want] to show that rap doesn’t have to age out. When people look at me, they need to understand that I can do this forever.”
It’s a tall task for anyone to accomplish, even those as talented as Pusha, but with his steady improvement over the years, Pusha might achieve his goal.
You can read Pusha’s full profile with NME here.
It’s Almost Dry is out now via GOOD Music and Def Jam. You can stream it here.
Pusha-T Talks Longevity in Rap: ‘I Can Do This Forever’
Kendrick Lamar Expresses His Confusion At Drake And Kanye West’s Reunion On His New Album
The turnover from autumn to winter last year saw Drake and Kanye West apparently set aside their longstanding differences. It was a surprising time for many who had been paying attention to the many chapters of their relationship, as it all seemed to happen so fast. The two hip-hop heavyweights quickly agreed to perform at the LA Coliseum in a concert dedicated to Larry Hoover and appeared like the best of friends on stage, sharing high fives, side hugs, and covers of each other’s songs. Among the many confused was Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, though it was more personal for him.
On the new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, K Dot’s first solo LP since 2017’s Damn, he addresses the reunion and what it reveals about his own maturity as a man. “When Kanye got back with Drake, I was slightly confused / Guess I’m not as mature as I think, got some healin’ to do,” he says on “Father Time,” which features Sampha.
Drake and West threw jabs at one another for years but their bubbling tension reached its peak in 2018, when Ye produced Pusha T’s Daytona album, which included “Infrared,” a shot at the 6 God for his ghostwriting allegations, among other things. Drake replied on the very same day with “Duppy Freestyle,” a two-birds kind of approach that fired back at both of them. What would ensue from there is Pusha responding with “The Story Of Adidon,” revealing to the world that Drake has a son, and a lot more subtle shots over the years between the three until this past year.
Listen to “Father Time” above.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is out now via PgLang/TDE/Aftermath/Interscope. Get it here.